Using Selections

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Explanation

Use Selections to name a set of objects you would like to revisit later, e.g. a set of supplier invoices, customers etc.. The contents of your selection will not change until you manually add or remove objects to/from it. The selections you create are personal and stored in your user profile.

There are several options to reach your selections.

 

Figure 1: Selections are available directly from the Navigator Structure. Creating Selections

Prerequisites

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System Effects

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Window

Selections

Related Window Descriptions

Selection Viewer

Procedure

Create Selection

  1. Open the page where you want to create a selection and populate/search for data. Supplier Invoices, customers etc.
  2. Highlight the objects you want to include in the selection and choose Add to Selection/New Selection from the context menu. Note that you highlight a set of objects by holding the Shift key or a separate objects by holding the Ctrl key.

Figure 2: Create Selection

  1. A dialog box is displayed where you enter the name and description for the selection Click OK to create the selection. It will now be visible in the navigator and you can start using it.

View Selection

There are several options to reach your selections.

Figure 3: Selections in My Administration

Via the context menu you have the following options:

Add Objects to an Existing Selection

  1. Open the page where you have objects you want to add to a selection and populate/search for data. Supplier Invoices, customers etc.
  2. Highlight the object(s) you want to include in the selection and choose Add to Selection. In the context menu you will see all your existing selections for that page, select which selection to add the objects to. Note that you must refresh the selection to see the added objects.

Figure 4: Add To Selection context menu shows all existing selections for the current page

Remove Objects from an Existing Selection

  1. Open an existing selection
  2. Highlight the objects you want to remove. Open the context menu via right mouse button and select Add to Selection/Remove from Selection. Your selections connected the current page are presented in a drop down list. Choose the Selection you want to remove your selected object(s) from.


Figure 5: Removing selected objects from an existing selection